Participant Info

Species

Carex douglasii [Carex fendleriana] [Carex irrasa] [Carex meekii] etc.

Family

Cyperaceae

CommonName

Douglas's sedge

Presence

yes

Status

native

EarliestDate

1896

LatestDate

2017

Ecosystem

basin, shrubland, foothill, montane, ruderal

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin, LBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache

Passes

North

WildlifePreserves

Baca

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Douglas's sedge has been recorded often from the Watershed at lower elevations, beside streams and in mesic meadows. Carex douglasii seems to adapt to disturbed ground, and for instance has been found beside roads, in old pastures, and in a picnic area in the Great Sand Dunes NNP (Alamosa Co, 1996). The USA distribution is all Western states, with scattered locations in the northern Great Plains. The species follows the Rio Grande drainage only two counties into New Mexico, no farther down stream.

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